The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment joins today the celebration of World Environment Day, which this year has as its motto “7,000 million dreams. One planet. Consume in moderation”, proposing to citizens that they join the project “One million commitments for the Climate – Road to COP21 in Paris”, an initiative with the aim of involving society in the fight against climate change.

This project, presented last Wednesday by the Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Isabel García Tejerina, arises within the framework of the celebration of the Climate Summit, COP 21, which will take place next December in Paris, and in which governments must approve an agreement that establishes the new international regime to fight climate change.

Thus, for the Paris Summit to be a success, it is essential that society as a whole – citizens, companies, public administrations and social entities – mobilises by demonstrating its commitment and willingness to fight climate change.

The “One Million Climate Commitments” initiative underlines the need to become aware of the relationship between our daily behaviours and greenhouse gas emissions, and to make commitments based on the possibilities of each one of us to reduce these emissions. Its goal is to obtain 1 million commitments at the Spanish level to present at the next COP21 in Paris.

To this end, it has a unmillonporelclima.es web platform where the commitments that citizens, companies, associations, schools, universities or the media, among others, can be registered to actively collaborate in the defence of the climate.